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I’m Susan Herman, and I started freelance editing in 2007 after six years’ full time employment in the publishing industry. My business provides developmental editing for nonfiction authors and publishers. These are some of the things I can help you with: Write to your audience.…

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I’m blogging today in honor of National Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 5-11) and participating in a synchroblog with others who have stories to share about mental illness and their family and/or the church. My friend and former editing client, Sarah Lund, is hosting the synchroblog to…

When I rode over those roots I bumped so hard that my left foot flew off my blue pedal. And my bottom went off my seat. And I was like, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh That’s how powerful and fast my bike is. Then I fell off and my…

“Can you come here for a moment?” I approached her slowly, a half-smile and sunglasses guarding my face. Probably on her way to the mid-day senior dance at the community center, I thought. Maybe it’s her first time and she wants to be sure this is…

Sarah Griffith Lund was a close friend of mine when we were at Trinity University together. I was shy, but Sarah brought me out of my shell. Her tool? Questions. “Why did you do that?” she might ask, with absolutely no hint of “I wouldn’t have done that” behind…

As an editor who primarily works with nonfiction, I admit that I sometimes yawn at my desk. I believe my work is vital, but honestly, the material I find to edit can get pretty dry. Earlier this year I was swapping chapters back and forth with…